bostonangler Posted September 18, 2019 Report Share Posted September 18, 2019 This is from 5 years ago. It is more relevant today than ever. It might be a bit deep, but it will be enlightening for some... I hope this breaks through some of the barriers so the bigger picture becomes clear. Inherited capital is real, and it is for the few, not the many. B/A 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonangler Posted September 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2019 The fall of the Roman Republic was brought about by oligarchs who ingeniously diverted public funds into wars and projects from which they had profited massively and then used more public funds to give free bread to the people who became impoverished as a consequence of their actions, obtaining their votes and ultimately creating an openly authoritarian power structure. The parallel is all too real, only the global oligarchic power structure is still unrevealed, it has not yet formalize B/A 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 Piketty is such a great person...I saw a few interviews with him and he's truly enlightening...Thanks, B/A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted September 27, 2019 Report Share Posted September 27, 2019 Also Joseph Stiglitz ( a US Nobel laureate in economics) is great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwave Posted September 28, 2019 Report Share Posted September 28, 2019 18 hours ago, umbertino said: Joseph Stiglitz Dude is a globalist to say the least. Sooooo smart in economics he has seen, with the rest of us, the devaluation of all currencies of the world. Really really smart .... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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